1763 in science
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The year 1763 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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[edit] Astronomy
- Publication of Nicolas Louis de Lacaille's Coelum australe stelliferum, cataloguing all his data from the southern hemisphere and including about 10,000 stars and a number of brighter star clusters and nebulae
[edit] Awards
- Copley Medal: Not awarded
[edit] Births
- May 16 - Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, chemist (died 1829)
- December 25 - Claude Chappe, engineer (died 1805)
- John Brinkley, astronomer (died 1835)
- William Maclure, geologist (died 1840)
[edit] Deaths
- July 11 - Peter Forsskål, Swedish naturalist (born 1732)
